Hey everyone,
I opened a thread asking some questions in another area and I have decided to proceed with this project. I wanted a dedicated spinner cabinet but by the time I bought the controls and saw I was going to drop another $200 for the cabinet I changed my thinking as I could only find about 40 or so games that I'd play with a spinner. It was tough for my mind to justify a $300+ for 40 games.
I decided to go with a 4-way joystick and 3 button setup on the left hand side and then a spinner setup on the right hand side. I have 4/8 way controllers in my main cab but I typically always use the 8 way so I thought this would be a good way to represent the 4-way games correctly. I also wanted to stay 4:3(I know the risk) but I just am not a fan of 22"wide screen LCDs cropped so much so I found a guy on ETSY who had the setup I wanted but missing the plastics, which I i'll buy and cut accordingly. Also cut for T-Molding but not included, $115 shipped and this is arriving today.
Using Rasberry Pii but not sure I am a fan of it as I normally just use an i5, but due to size restrictions I feel it is the only option...i'll need to test more once everything is installed.
I bought a spintrak and configured fine with Mame/RetroPi, seems fluid but it is not in the cab yet.
That is all I have for now.